My friend Amy Alkon has discovered a wonderful homeless artist in LA named Gary Musselman, and we’re going to try to work with him to get some customers for his art. (He has sold his work to at least one customer in the Starbucks where he sits and does his drawing, but only got a […]
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I grow weary of people comparing compulsory state ID cards to supermarket loyalty cards - too weary, in fact, to take the conversation much further with such people. JP Rangaswami sums up the differences in a very tidy way:
I don’t have to have a passport. But there are things I can’t do if I don’t […]
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Dennis Howlett thinks I (financing my blog with my own cash and time) am like David Milliband (financing our blog with our cash and our time) because I have comments on this blog disabled by default while David Milliband simply cherry picks the complimentary comments to publish and blocks the inconvenient ones.
No, I don’t get […]
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It took getting pumped full of bullets by Al Qaeda for journalist Frank Gardner to realise that the bad guys don’t check your credentials before they try to kill you, because your credentials amount to diddly squat when you’re an infidel:
[I]t crossed my mind how unfair this was. I had spent four years studying Islam […]
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